Spanish – Encouraging News from Cuba – April, 2024

Encouraging News from Cuba

 Last year, while participating in the NRB Convention, I also spent some time in the Spanish Christian Communicators workshop, also known as Latino Leaders Summit. The organizers say this event is becoming the most relevant event in Hispanic media. The LLS features keynote lectures, panel discussions, workshops, conversations and networking with local and international leaders and experts in the areas of church, media, and communications. Each night, after arriving to the hotel, I shared with Jesús Blanco, our team leader in Cuba, what I had learned that day. We also dreamed of the day that an event like that was brought to Cuba. Something similar was organized internally five years ago. But for some unknown reason they discontinued it.

Well, less than a year later after we talked about it, God surprised us with the news that there would be an “Encampment for Christian Communicators” in Havana, Cuba, February 20-22. This is the same international group that organized the event in Orlando, Florida last year, and in Nashville Tenn. this year.

Christian media representatives (from radio, tv and Internet) from all over the Island were in attendance. La Voz Alegre as a radio Christian ministry and Palabra Fiel as internet ministry, both with a solid reputation in Cuba, received an invitation to attend. Five representatives from our LVA team attended, and were excited to actively participate in the event. They had the opportunity to share about our radio ministry, our short-wave daily broadcasts, our weekly broadcasts through TWR, how to download our App and connect with us through our website and WhatsApp number. They even had the chance to submit one of our radio spots in a competition, and got the second place!

Did I mention we were pleasantly surprised? But then we should not have been. We have seen God at work in Cuba, not only in turning people to Him in the mist of their desperate situation, but also opening the way to a more massive outreach through media. During the past year we have seen the attitude of government officials relax towards religious organizations not involved in politics, but in the simple proclamation of the message that save souls. In the case of La Voz Alegre, we have seen doors open in Cuba for our radio broadcast, and towards a broader, more impactful ministry.

In his report, Jesús Blanco wrote, “We are sure that God has great things prepared for the Christian media in Cuba, and we are eagerly waiting for the next doors that will open to announce Jesus in and from Cuba.”

Would you join me in prayer for the people of Cuba, and for more doors opening for the gospel there?